more violent scenes in egypt where clashes rage on as protesters against the government and the death sentences for those involved in last year's football stadium massacre continued to vent their anger at. the french military machine rolls over islamic militants in mali amid fears the country could be seeking to recall and eyes its former territory. and britain's prime minister david cameron finally commits to holding a referendum on breaking away from the e.u. sparking a new wave of criticism both at home and abroad. back

at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. if you just joined us a very warm welcome egypt's city of port syeed has descended into violence yet again as clashes broke out during a massive funeral march three people were killed and hundreds injured gunshots have also been reported in the area the egyptian government is not putting enough effort into dealing with the crisis that's the belief of political activists. we have to distinguish between two things first of all revolutionary forces who are looking for implementation of the slogans or words that evolution in egypt freedom and justice and struggling to do with. other groups we would like. stability of the situation in egypt and we have to be. very courageous

to uncover all those people who broker violence will support the violence or violence violence because it's too difficult to build our democracy on such a violence but at the same time the government has to be willing to start a new process of national reconciliation but unfortunately we haven't seen until now any government official is speaking to people including some president himself as a government is this still looking into the situation from very narrow perspective they limit what's going on on any street into violence and into violent groups and ignoring that there are real demands and his bell true now with an update from the capital kyra. here in the capitol there are clashes raging between protesters and security forces on the cornish. key areas

near government buildings as it was to tear gas in the air here in downtown cairo rocks have also been exchanged security have upped their presence around government buildings as the focus of the anger here for protesters is very much against morsi ministration they saying that the president is not going to just admit he can't run the country and he hasn't listened to their demands to the unrest here is still continuing it's very tense that in court saeed as well as the situation in egypt really descends into a bit of a crisis president mohamed morsi council this travel plans yesterday met with his national defense council to discuss the deepening crisis across the country one of the options at this meeting was that they may consider an emergency status we don't know the details of what that would actually mean but of course here in egypt they lived under most state of emergency for thirty years the mubarak which led to protests being banned and censorship being legalized something people would really be very angry with and want to avoid to get to see if the situation continues on

the streets of cairo imports i need and we see further deaths and they may resort to emergency status but here we don't actually know what's going on quite yet of course a lot of i'm going towards the president this started just at the end of last year when he pushed through what was very seen as an unpopular constitution drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly people also say that he has not made any of the changes that were called for jury duty five i believe two years ago so he's really lost quite a lot of legitimacy on the streets at the moment we're seeing a very restive undivided egypt. bill true reporting there from the french intervention forces continuing its advance in mali helping the local unelected government beat back islamic militants several french allies including britain and the u.s. are also providing support for the military offensive but the coalition no funds are still fighting the same sort of people that helped bring to power in libya as police reports now from paris. which are very very. using wanted peace you wanted

freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people. but a regional crisis probably wasn't what mr sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al qaeda will establish its rule bin laden will return and libya will be another afghanistan terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later markets after his words could well be ringing in the areas of need what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every action has a reaction. sickness and not only do the french intervention in libya not help the

democratic process which is what they said they were after but it is fact if it opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go south of the border this is no more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the a lot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all talk rating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour. a situation where people are going to sway very considered sense so bribery and corruption paying off or to grab is commonplace gadhafi was bitter opponent all

right it was ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide the basis the first effects for immediate hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's iraq or sarkozy it's just i'm french i was born here and lived here my culture is french my origins are there and i was there i was like another country telling me do. you know we're scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that france can remedy the knock on effects from its libyan

intervention. r t paris. francis stepped up security measures at home fearing reprisal attacks from is most who have vowed to avenge the mahdi intervention dozens of foreign hostages were killed when terrorists seized a gas plant in algeria last week middle east expert tariq ali thinks that further retribution strikes will likely be focused in africa i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group but one mind already said that the phrase war against terrorism is a day to be united states will abandon sort of ironic that the french are unknown it up the french intervention which has many people in the so-called lot because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking rangers resawing out jury only incidentally the role

of the french played in algeria by its being in encouraging the government to stop an election midway has also left an impact on that concrete salissa no doubt it will do you still below as well the outgoing u.s. secretary of state has admitted the arab spring revolts which washington backed lead to a rise of extremism and shattered security in the region in the clinton testified before lawmakers about last year's attack on the american consulate in libya which saw four u.s. diplomats killed it responsibility for failures that led to the assault while stressing that washington should continue to exert its influence across the arab world u.s. senator john kerry is expected to take over from clinton but some analysts down to a new face will overhaul u.s. foreign policy. but the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counter terrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state

department what hillary clinton did which was more important than anything else during her four years as secretary of state was to be part of the coalition of the phalanx if you will of pro-war people which really left to president obama no choice but to go along with the forty thousand troops that the military was demanding that mcchrystal is demanding for afghanistan john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well that there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s. policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. you watch in the weekly here

on coming up this hour he may have hung on to his job but he failed to convince his voters israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he thinks a majority in the country's parliament only a narrow margin and is now struggling to form a stable coalition more on that point after a short break stay with us this is that week.

today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a show to rule the day. from the new center here in moscow where with you twenty four hours a day you're watching the weekly it's all look back at the past seven days top stories and also the latest developments today the prime minister. dmitry medvedev

has criticized washington the move to sanction a number of russian officials for alleged crimes which no court has found him guilty of speaking to c.n.n. the russian premier said magnitsky bill on capitol hill falls outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the u.s. . that each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to his territory this is something normal but it's something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the reasons for the united states could and still can prohibit any russian officials entrance to america in the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america but this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution that convicts

these individuals without any trial or prosecution but each. committee made event also spoke out all need twenty two month syrian crisis which shows no signs of abating moscow stressed it doesn't support any side in the conflict while maintaining that foreign intervention should be completely ruled out but the premier did say time is not on president assad side. new york i think there are fewer chances for him to stay on with every new day every week and every month but let me repeat it is up to the syrian people to make a decision not up to russia the united states or any other state and now the main task is to launch a national reconciliation process we should think about the future for instance if the opposition which by the way has been formed outside of syria comes to power what is it going to do with its members will exterminate representatives of other islamic movements and other confessions they are already doing this that's why

there are two options either it will be a process of national reconciliation and you held under the control of the international community or an endless civil war and there is no in-between. and you can get more videos interview on our website harty dot com. well now to international news in brief the revised number of deaths in a massive fire at a nightclub in southern brazil now stands at two hundred thirty the tragedy took place after a band forming in the club started launching fireworks off the stage of a set fire to insulation phone in the ceiling with the flames spreading in a matter of minutes the venue was packed with people at the time it was only one exit and panic spread as people try to get out somewhere this is claimed that security guards tried to keep the only way out of the club shut until they were knocked down by a group of men. thousands of rallied in washington calling from proven it's to

gun control nationwide among the participants for the residents of newtown connecticut where an elementary school massacre last month left twenty six dead president obama has unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades including background checks and a ban on military style assault weapons the proposals have divided the nation with about half of americans insisting it's their right to bear arms without restrictions. a roadside bomb has killed at least ten policemen in afghanistan in the southern province of kandahar it detonated next to a police truck just as officers had finished diffusing another explosive device it's the third such attack in the past twenty four hours which in total have claimed the lives of more than twenty people. the annual world economic forum in davos in switzerland was shaken up by a speech this week by the british prime minister david cameron and his arteries andrew farmer reports the long anticipated address on the u.k.'s future relations

with the e.u. has ruffled a few feathers at home as well. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can win the next election in twenty fifteen basically he wants more power for return from brussels to westminster and will try to renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that if he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech and dines at the place many of the euro skeptics within his tory party there are many down it is u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away attention investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but other e.u. members are less sympathetic denmark says that the e.u. is not a self-service buffet where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens

speaking to said the e.u. would simply become a mess so while david cameron appears to solve any internal squabbles within his own party particularly placing those euro skeptics it also appears that he's driving a wedge between britain and other e.u. member states andrew farmer. london. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu won the country's parliamentary election this week but suffered a serious setback results gave his right wing likud party the narrowest of victories with just thirty one out of one hundred twenty seats now netanyahu will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel could be the challenges of the right wing an orthodox religious parties one half the seats in the parliament a broad based government might be more in tune with the a bomb or ministrations agenda of holding off on any israeli attack on iran's controversial nuclear facilities the from me national iranian american council says brute force must give

way to tough diplomacy. i don't see. a lot of interest in the white house right now to. push netanyahu on the issue of settlements and and on peace talks so i don't know that there's necessarily going to be the same friction points that sort of marked the beginning of obama's term and netanyahu his term last time i really see the only source of friction that you know might be pursued by both parties is this issue of iran and i think it's really it's a matter of will netanyahu sort of stand down and allow the u.s. approach which is involved sanctions but supposedly is going to also involve tough diplomacy at some point in time i think the wise move right now is to allow that to play out so that we can actually resolve this netanyahu is not going to have as easy a time to sort of go the international community into this position of sort of you know it's either netanyahu is way you know either you or the u.s.

and europe do what israel wants or israel will take matters into its own hands you've seen sort of the isolation that's resulted from the palestinian push for statehood at the u.n. and you've seen how netanyahu support for mitt romney really backfired on him so i think that he has a lot less sort of political capital internationally and hopefully obama will make good on some of the promises he made his inauguration speech and that he's made consistently which is that he's seriously committed to diplomacy and finding a negotiated solution to the standoff with iran that can prevent a war the prospects for palestinian statehood will be another important issue for the israeli prime minister the peace deal is now deadlocked with netanyahu saying more subtle homes will be built in his term and direct and nimrod kalman name for his prank videos decided to take him on a little look at the israeli land expansion. my name is name more than israeli

citizen living here among all of. you one housing crisis of it all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also live among ourselves and i think i can get that much better deal with the wise over the. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up with one flat is one million shekels is photos for that and the building that this whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the u.s. almost all the political parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talk location he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big you want investor understand it's the only building currently built but if i

can show him more. hills more outposts. and no one except. two state solution who cares as long as the properties cheap is a jew man leaving london i want to cash in on my jewishness and like be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any non jewish part because. not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future for israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scum and so you know it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. you see. there's.

rain too there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. the scene is the most disputed area you never notice it just because people told us . but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even constructed i was coming up. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy capital of his i pay so much money for rent in london anyone in london and here. and in the big city think it's comfortable it all starts here so

beautiful all of us is ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built up as if you want i just call this real estate is called three days and all the flats in this part of town and i say no to see them and it will never be evacuated today selling more and more. of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish label. me. i went to see an. agent to get to the all the legalities. of. selling your house by any chance that. i had my house.

and we caught up with the filmmaker nimrod coming he says if you want to live cheap and easy in israel the disputed west bank areas are the place for you nobody really goes in get in there my mindset of the religious ones in the not only just want to just come there for the deal and i mean they don't even think about politics for them it's just buying and selling and like they told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe but if people going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government would pay them compensation for the

victims if you buy a float over there you get huge discounts if you've got many kids even more discounts you don't even have to be religious easily states like actually difficult build another one for a state which is the settler jewish only west bank cities and if you just go there and you buy a flat you can sell it to they could reach jewish americans some of the people i talked to are never going to i mean give up their house bill from like the ninety's the heavily air like into the settlement of the entire west bank and they even told me that like jordan is also the kind of part of the jewish state just call and like the other ones are just like non-religious people who used to live in that you know these early election is all about social justice kind of the whole. the whole like housing prices so pretty much if you want to leave chip in israel that's the only option. ubi moshing the weekly herald i'll be back with more for in about the hoff

an hour from now in the meantime altie investigates the deadly virus plaguing the african american population in the u.s. that's all special report after this break stay with us for that if you can. call. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of

a diagnosis of. over six to two percent of those species i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. any old. bath to start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like

this a period between the first outbreak of aids summer nine hundred eighty one and i nine hundred eighty five not only were people coming down with a it's and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated but in the back of their mind h.l.v. may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america the nation's gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here it's not spreading out that way despite in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's a black man.